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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67674748

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45976558

Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 120 points 2 months ago (10 children)

“I enjoy thinking about business things on the weekends,” the 61-year-old admitted. “I do emails, and I read my papers and all of that. Do I feel that that is a big pressure? No … I enjoy doing that. So I don’t feel I need to think about how I balance my life.”

His advice for anyone who lives for the weekend? “I think the advice here is to take some time to think about what you like doing,” he added. “Don’t do a job that you don’t like, so then you need balance.”

Utterly severed from the reality of the working class.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine very few of us work a job we actually like doing more than spending time with family and friends. That seems unhealthy by definition, somehow.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right. I actually like my job and I appreciate that is a rare occurrence these days. But I also like my private life. If I had a choice I still would spend more time on what I do in my private life than in my job, since right now the balance is still heavily on the job side (if we exclude sleeping since well, I don't get the choice to do that at my job).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Fully agree. Same situation. I have a job I actually enjoy doing. If I was in prison being forced to do what I do, I would have fun. But I'd still want to be with my family more and have free time with them. I give more of my time to my work than my family and that's pretty fucked up if you think about it. You spend more time with colleagues than you do with your family, going through life. So bad, so wrong.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just get a job you like… sure, no problem. What if even getting a job of any kind is a problem.

[–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 13 points 2 months ago

I do have a job I like. But I still need balance. Because my job isn't reading some mails and reading the fucking papers.
But nothing new from those type of people and it shows yet again why you shouldn't trust their proclamations of how much they "work".

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I do actually like my job, but I sure as shit don't give it a single thought when I'm not at work.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I fucking love my job.

But every minute after 4 pm is overtime. And I won't let myself even think about that shit not on the clock.

I know I have some issue with nutanix I gotta troubleshoot today but I won't go deeper than that til I've sat down at my desk.

I bring my laptop with me when I leave the house because if something clicks, I wanna get it done and get paid.

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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I am so happy I quit my career in academia. Now I just clock out and do the Bob Kelso. Not having to think about work in your free time is a bless

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Then he goes on month long vacations leaving the actual people who work to continue working for far worse pay than he claims.

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 7 points 2 months ago

Shit, why didn't anyone else think of that? It's so simple!

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Or even the reality of anyone who has a real job.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

This is the best thing I have seen in ages

The time for rrrreeeeaaaaaalllll close french haircuts is coming

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 10 points 2 months ago

It's got that Chris Hansen lean...

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Iñaki Ereño

Is his name. Why that information is paywalled?

As if we can afford JavaScript in this economy.

Iñaki Ereño Is that dudes name.

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 13 points 2 months ago

CEO of Bupa in case you want to avoid (working for) that company.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah sure but these are the guys who walk around on the floor where the people who actually do the work are currently working and they call that work.

These guys just fucking jerk each other off on golf courses and believe they put in a full days work.

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My boss brags about never taking any vacation, yet posts pics on LinkedIn of him fishing with other C-levels of the company on a Monday...

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boss came to talk me about how i looked tired yesterday. We talked for some time and he said that i need to look fresher, like he. He told how in reality he was also tired because he was golfing day before and his legs were so sore, but he does not let it show.

[–] baines@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lmao I would not be able to bite my tongue

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Hehe, where I work at, sometimes I bite my tongue so hard I need to see the medic.

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[–] Plum@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I need to leave on time, you cunt, because I don't have a maid, an au pair, and a personal chef.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

And you also do actual labor when you're working instead of client lunches and golf.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

There's a typo, work life balance is for the week. The weekend you shouldn't have to balance it because that's life time.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How's being weak bad?

That's the true fallacy being put into our minds here. Some people are strong and some are weaker. I think solidarity is a great thing and we should help each other out.

If some people are not made for working as much we should let them. Leave them be. You work your ass off all you want if you like. Both is fine.

Let people love their own lives and don't judge.

People are born different. We should make a world where everyone can live decently.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile these same cunts spend more time on the golf course and on random yachts than most people do in their own home, also under the guise of "(net)working" obviously, while at the same time mandating a full return to office for the grunts.

Flexibility is a two way street. You want me to be invested in the work in the company, stop posting linkedin stories and find ways to make exactly that actually enticing.

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[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You think these fuckers are giving us cake?

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[–] soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

What a moron

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

True, it is life balance.

Work is always secondary.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

The message is clear - "Be strong and throw yourself off a cliff for your overlords".

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No one needs the validation of a billionaire.

[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Bupa is a British multinational health insurance and healthcare company

Maybe he should reflect on what happened at United Healthcare

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Hahaha, proudly telling everyone you don't have your life priorities straight, and so old you'll probably die thinking: I was right all along, I'm dying now but at least I had all this wealth and power.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He isn't wrong though, if i got paid 8 or 9 figures or more per year in euro/usd i wouldn't mind working 8 days a week.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure. But don't forget this cunt thinks work is going golfing, calling his secretary to get more coffee, or go to expensive dinners.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Don't forget going to gym with his kids, replying email, and gasp, reading news.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Work to live, don't live to work.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Lol. Ok. Slave away instead of living. Cause that makes sense to be your life objective...

[–] dejova281@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

“For the weak” more like for those of us who don’t have a love of money that we’re totally devoted to?

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

Technically just being employees, CEOs only job is saying what shareholders want.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The CEO who might do 10 hours of actual work a week.

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They actually do work a ton, usually, but work also involves a lot of traveling and socializing and steak dinners, so working 70 hours a week often involves a good amount of play baked into it. "I had a business meeting then a business lunch then a business golf game then another business meeting then a business dinner with some business wine. I work so much harder than you peons!"

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